Proud Jewish Boy

They said he started it all. On November 7, 1938, a gentle looking seventeen-year-old Jewish boy, an illegal resident in France, entered the German embassy in Paris and fired three bullets at German diplomat Ernst vom Rath. Two days later, vom Rath died of his wounds. And Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, sent the […] >>

On the Frontline

A group of youths, some religious, some secular, decide to postpone their mandatory military service and spend a year living together in the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem to promote understanding and cooperation between both communities, whose schism is tearing Israeli society apart.While concentrating on seeking mutual understanding among themselves, the group members find themselves at […] >>

The First Lady

Efrat Tilma, a trailblazing transgender woman, was forced to flee Israel as a teenager in the 1960s after a police officer threatened to kill her if he ever saw her again walking the streets of Tel Aviv in women’s clothing. Today, at 75, she is a prominent LGBTQ+ activist and the first transgender volunteer in […] >>

Words from the In Between

Nir has received a definitive diagnosis. She is going to die. She looks healthy now, but she knows that can change at any moment. The filmmaker suggests filming her, and over the course of a year, she watches her live with her approaching death. The film follows a young woman, a musician and a dancer, […] >>

Black to Back

Black to Back deals with  replication and imitation, as they are manifested in Youtube video comments. It is a 5 channel video installation, showing 5 women making an “Amy Winehouse Hairdo”. Together they keep spreading Winehouse’s figure through the internet, long after her 2011 physical death in. The women are “taken” out of the internet […] >>

Paleosol 80 South

A poetic journey in the Israeli desert shot through a thermal camera. In apocalyptic surroundings, detached from time or place, lies a fascinating encounter between ancient mythologies and the political present. >>

Close, Closed, Closure

This film examines life inside the closed Gaza strip for both those imprisoned inside and those existing outside of the walls as a joint Israeli-Palestinian film crew observes the human conditions, the politics, and the economics of both sides of the electronic wired fence which encircles one of the most densely populated areas in the […] >>

Karaoke

The world of Meir and Tova, a middle class couple in their 60’s, is shaken up when Itsik – a pleasure seeking bachelor with a fondness for karaoke – moves into their building, causing a stir in their lives. >>

Thieves By Law

Following the stories of three mafiosi-cum-businessmen, Thieves By Law paints a fascinating tableau of men that would make Tony Soprano cringe. Most intriguing, though, are their personal histories interwoven with the evolution of the Russian Mafia itself. Beginning in Stalin’s Gulags and slowly transforming into an international organization, the mafia and Code of Thieves have […] >>

Bube Maises

Yaffa (80) lives in a care home. She relives her childhood through postcards sent by her father from all over the world. >>

Radio Propaganda

The film brings for the first time the story of the Israeli radio station Beit Shidir. With the establishment of the State of Israel and the immigration of Jews from Arab countries, the radio station was an active site for producing intelligence and political warfare against Arab countries in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. From […] >>

A List of Things I Love

When my 11-year relationship ended, I suddenly found myself in a new city, in an empty apartment. I only have half of my furniture and half of myself. Through observations and a list of things I love, I am trying to rediscover myself. >>

Hadar HaCarmel

In the 1950’s Haifa’s Hadar HaCarmel neighbourhood was the lively heart of the city. Today it’s abandoned and neglected but its past is still present on every corner. The film tells the neighbourhood through the stories of a few of it’s most intriguing residents. >>

Salsa Tel Aviv

Vicki, a Mexican salsa dancer and a poor single mother, leaves her young son with her mother and flies to Israel dressed as a nun in order to sneak in. She plans to work and follow Beto, her boyfriend and the father of her child. On the plane she meets Yoni, a young Israeli scientist, […] >>

Labour

How far will a man go to provide for his family?  Sahsha and Rita are new immigrants from Dagestan, trying to deal with a foreclosure order and Sasha’s job loss. >>